getting shorted on a purchase....

I'm a little annoyed at the moment. I've been working on cleaning up my basement and putting things where they belong instead of where they get piled. I bought a box of those space bags - has one jumbo cube, one extra large and one large bag. This should be enough to store my extra linens and comforters I don't use but are still perfectly good. I take my box down to the basement to try out the ultra wonderful space bags... right... okay - first problem, there is only the jumbo cube in the box - the other two bags aren't there. Grrr - this is a constant problem at the stores by my house. People steal from boxes and leave enough to make it look right when you peek in to make sure the stuff is there. Somehow or another, my hand goes right to the package that doesn't have what it is supposed to in it. If it isn't that, it's grabbing one that is damaged in a way that I don't see until I get it home. Then, how can you really take it back? Who is to say I didn't use two of the bags out of the box and then take it back and say I got shorted? I mean besides the fact that I wouldn't do that, but they don't know me and can't know I wouldn't do something like that. Plus I'd feel guilty even though I didn't do anything because they'd be looking at me and thinking right - this is a scam.
I think part of my problem is I hate shopping. I want to get what I need and go. The store is always crowded, you can hardly ever get to what you need to without having to wait for other people to spend 5 minutes trying to make a decision, and the checkout lines are crazy long. I think I really need to start driving to stores outside my neighborhood - maybe that would help. I used to live right by a grocery store that primarily served a pretty upscale area and the shopping experience was completely different. The biggest difference I noticed was no matter what the hour there was always way more lanes open than you'd expect given the number of customers in the store. In the year I shopped there, I don't think I ever had to wait in line behind more than one person. Maybe because of that fact - people seemed much nicer there. The employees weren't all rushed and frazzled, and so everyone was calm and polite.
I do make an effort to try and go to the store at really odd hours in the hopes that it won't be so crowded, but the downside to that is that you can end up in a really super long checkout line. And the 24 hour stores are further away for me to drive to. Hmmm... so is it really worth the extra time and money to drive further to have a better shopping experience? I'm starting to think it is at least worth trying. I'd really like to be able to come home from the store and actually have all the things I bought and have them all be in good working order.
So it looks like my space bag experience will have to wait - the one bag I did actually have in the box, tore when I went to close it. Guess I tried to put too much stuff in there. Grrr... just not a good thing all the way around. Heh, maybe I'm just not supposed to get organized!